Whether the umpires were correct in their decision that the ball had been tampered with is NOT the point at issue, PeterK.

The Pakistan team and officials had several avenues open to them by which to protest that decision, and they chose the very worst one - to try to take the game out of the umpires' hands by (a) refusing to re-start play at the appointed time not once, but twice and then, (b) when the umpires had dropped the bails (thereby declaring the match finished) coming out on to the pitch in an obvious attempt to blackmail the umpires into restarting the game.

Now we hear they are continuing their attempted blackmail by threatening to pull out of the one-day series, thus hitting out at a completely innocent England team, officials and supporters. It stinks.

BTW, personally I don't believe the ball was tampered with, and I totally understand why the Pakistanis felt aggrieved, but their actions are totally out of order and tantamount to the same kind of anarchy that's utterly ruining our other national game, football.

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